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by robbedpeter
1525 days ago
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Iterating over past failures is how progress happens. There will be negative consequences from anything, but the reason for geothermal is that it doesn't have the negative consequences fossil fuels do, and it's cleaner than wind or solar. Also, I'll take localized pollution over global disruption any day. |
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In Taupo, if my memory serves, the geothermal fluid was found to have high concentrations of arsenic (?) that was seriously polluting rivers.
The subsidence of surrounding land was a problem too
They developed ways of re-injecting the fluid into the well which they hoped would fix both problems, and time will tell.